Fable delayed to 2026
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A cheaper game captures more customers, yes. It doesn't mean that Avowed didn't make its money back. Retention as a metric doesn't matter at all for an offline game you play and finish, and depending on how Grounded is monetized, it might not matter for that game either, if the intention is that you just play with your friends. The profit or loss of Avowed, next to the hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue that Microsoft brings in in a year, hardly matters to investors, and I don't know where you got it in your head that these media appearances are a plea to investors. Microsoft is an enormous behemoth operating at much larger scales than any one video game. Their strategy is Game Pass. They're all in on that strategy. If Avowed seems to provide value for Game Pass and keep people subscribed, then they and their investors are happy. For everyone who isn't interested in Game Pass, they're happy to sell it to you for $70. You're just making shit up as you go instead of admitting what you do and do not know.
The profit or loss of Avowed, next to the hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue that Microsoft brings in in a year, hardly matters to investors
*Looks at tango, arkane and the rest of the cemetery.
Yes, every time anyone at MS said the engagement and GP users was amazing it was totally true. Lets believe that and appreciate how normal it is to give interviews to bloomberg saying, "we totally didn't fail our objectives with this mediocre piece of media".
Time is on my side, I'll just save this interaction.
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The profit or loss of Avowed, next to the hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue that Microsoft brings in in a year, hardly matters to investors
*Looks at tango, arkane and the rest of the cemetery.
Yes, every time anyone at MS said the engagement and GP users was amazing it was totally true. Lets believe that and appreciate how normal it is to give interviews to bloomberg saying, "we totally didn't fail our objectives with this mediocre piece of media".
Time is on my side, I'll just save this interaction.
Then if and when you revisit it, you can see a reminder here that the problem here all along is that you're assuming you know it failed off of bonkers reasoning, not that you may have guessed right. You just criticized those dummies over AC Shadows, and here you are doing the same thing.
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The first game was cool. Vastly over-promised, but still cool. Fable 2 was mid, at best. Then Fable 3 was just pure dogwater.
I don’t have high hopes for a reboot. If it’s actually done properly, it’ll be a nice surprise. But I refuse to get my hopes up.
I preferred fable 2 over 1 because it had guns.
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Then if and when you revisit it, you can see a reminder here that the problem here all along is that you're assuming you know it failed off of bonkers reasoning, not that you may have guessed right. You just criticized those dummies over AC Shadows, and here you are doing the same thing.
You calling something bonkers doesn't void the fact that a demonstrably cheaper game from the same developer was far more reaching and generated more engagement than the halo product from the same stable that got a 3D ad in times square. Everything else is cope.
I find it amusing that you're using the Conway "alternative facts" defense in the same breath you compare me to the AC shadows detractors. Projection for the win I guess.
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I think Kojima said it best in the Resetera review, and I think it applies here too. Avowed is basically a shooter with fantasy trappings and it does appeal to a certain demographic. I'm not it.
Lmao. Bruh, wtf are you talking about. I've basically used nothing but melee or stealth / dialogue the whole time.
It's a tight, well written game, that doesn't waste your time with endless auto-generated quests.
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Very likely will be a launch game for MS's new handheld console.
Hopefully it will launch on Steam ex aequo.
Oh no. Anyway
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Very likely will be a launch game for MS's new handheld console.
Hopefully it will launch on Steam ex aequo.
MS handheld, so we get all the bloat and spyware of Windows on limited hardware.
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Lmao. Bruh, wtf are you talking about. I've basically used nothing but melee or stealth / dialogue the whole time.
It's a tight, well written game, that doesn't waste your time with endless auto-generated quests.
Of course you have. If you mean picking the mobs one by one from a distance because they reset after x amount of m from origin just like in an MMO (mobs are leashed), I have bad news for you. Already in Far Cry 4's release that was rightfully pointed out as shit design, several years later is just unacceptable. Again, Kojima was right, pearls to pigs.
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Of course you have. If you mean picking the mobs one by one from a distance because they reset after x amount of m from origin just like in an MMO (mobs are leashed), I have bad news for you. Already in Far Cry 4's release that was rightfully pointed out as shit design, several years later is just unacceptable. Again, Kojima was right, pearls to pigs.
Sounds like the author has a skill issue with Stealth.
Mobs are leashed? Cool, that doesn't matter cause I play the game like a high fantasy battle mage, and don't run from fights.
Also, mobs are leashed in most games to some extent or another. Avowed is well written, well voice acted, tells an interesting story, and is fun to play through.
Really just feels like people were expecting Skyrim and are upset they got something more focused.
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Actually there are two studios within Playground Games, I'm sure there's cross pollination but the other studio is still making Forza supposedly.
Fair point, but in that case it means they're not just pivoting, but building a whole new studio from the ground up for this game.
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MS handheld, so we get all the bloat and spyware of Windows on limited hardware.
It's like having an EEEPC running XP rather than Linux
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Very likely will be a launch game for MS's new handheld console.
Hopefully it will launch on Steam ex aequo.
Is it to fix that ugly ass main character, that's the first time I've seen that...face?
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*Late is just for a little while, suck is forever" - Lord Gabe
Yeah but this one's going to be late for a little while and then suck forever
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Fair point, but in that case it means they're not just pivoting, but building a whole new studio from the ground up for this game.
Yeah you're right. It is quite a lot, especially with this kind of an IP and expectations to deal with
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Yeah but this one's going to be late for a little while and then suck forever
I would like to predict the future too but alas I'm quite bad at it
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I preferred fable 2 over 1 because it had guns.
Fable 2 has guns? Damn I need to play this series. I thought it was just some fantasy wizard bullshit. (LotR is the only fantasy wizard bullshit that I enjoy, everything else can die in a fire.)
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Fable 2 has guns? Damn I need to play this series. I thought it was just some fantasy wizard bullshit. (LotR is the only fantasy wizard bullshit that I enjoy, everything else can die in a fire.)
Pistols and rifles. There's even this thing:
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I would like to predict the future too but alas I'm quite bad at it
I'm just talking crap. My most recent impression of the series was Fable: The Journey and that sucked shit through a fat old boba tea straw.
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Very likely will be a launch game for MS's new handheld console.
Hopefully it will launch on Steam ex aequo.
Does anybody know if Sweetbaby is involved in some way? I want female characters to look female, not some ambiguous looking humanoid.
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Does anybody know if Sweetbaby is involved in some way? I want female characters to look female, not some ambiguous looking humanoid.
That is not what Sweetbaby Inc. does...
You should get your women hating dumb ass back to the sewer communities on reddit. Where you can collectively rage at the imaginary boogyman that is coming for your games.
